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Tuesday, April 10, 2012

ETD ~ The cell phone wristlet pattern is now available. Just click through the link on the top right-hand side of this page to purchase it. Thanks so much for your interest.

Where does the time go? March is always a crazy month for our family with spring break, birthdays and ski season. Here it's come and gone and I haven't even had a chance to tell you about the latest SWAPeroos I'm sewing for.

First up is the Pretty {little} Pouch swap (P{l}PS)which I have joined before. My pouches are all done and off in the mail to my partner. Hopefully they will arrive soon.
Since my partner likes scrappy designs and pastel-ish colors I decided on this pink-inspired color palette. I just love this Domestic Bliss line from Liz Scott which is saying something because sewing is about as close to Domestic Bliss as i'll ever get. Other aspects of domesticity not withstanding.

This fabric is so vibrant and girly and seemed appropriate for my partner.
I knew I wanted to do a scrappy star, so I made an 8-pointed paper pieced star out of selvages and then appliqued that to the linen pouch. The pouch needed some more interest so I added the wavy curve along the front, also scrappy-pieced. Add in some hand stitching and you have a finished pouch!

Well, hmmm, it seems to be missing something.
Somehow that didn’t really seem like enough, so I added a little cell phone pouch to coordinate. I must confess I needed to make a cell phone pouch as a gift for a friend, so I used my P{l}PS partner’s extra as a prototype.

Needs some tweeking to get it just right for my friend, but it turned out pretty well for a first pass. The patterns are self-drafted and I do plan to make them available soon so stay tuned. I know I always say that and don't always deliver, so keep me honest peeps!
Swap project A completed. Now onto the next one…

Hey! I popped over here from the PLPS....I am so in love with this pouch and extra goodie that you made. You've done a fantastic job! I will definitely looking forward to your tutorial. I can't wait! So...I'll help keep you honest. :o) Thanks so much for the inspiration!!

I am a PLPS visitor to your blog... I just wanted to let you know that I just love the pouches! They ROCK! I will help to keep you on your toes with the patterns... I WANT THEM! I will even offer to purchase them! LOL

I stumbled across you page and love love love your pouch - the hand stitiching really finishes it nicely. I also am excited to learn the pattern for the phone pouch. We recently moved and my girls must wear an id at school every day as well as bring their lunch money, this would be PERFECT! I will be checking back. Thanks.

I saw the smaller pouch on pinterest and had to come check it out--I do hope you create a tutorial/pattern for it, that little pouch is perfect for carrying all the essentials without having to drag a purse around!

I love your Star Applique! Do you have a link to the Paper Piecing instructions for that? I am new to paperpiecing and would love to try that Star. Your cell phone pouch is cute too. I see your working on the tutorial for that will look forward to seeing that come out soon :) Happy Quilting,

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